Psychologists and massage therapists are reporting ‘Trump anxiety’ among clients
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- We're now setting global temperature records almost every single month. Every month and every year have been the hottest on record, suggesting that we're now in the "runaway acceleration" period of global warming and there's nothing we could about it even if we weren't still just sitting on our hands and battling a "culture war of attrition" with the people who still insist the whole thing is made up.
- Things like http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything... suggest that "political belief congruence" and information bubbles have become so strong that rational political discourse is now impossible, and outrage+stonewalling will continue forever. If Trump doesn't win in November, then at best we'll keep "lurching from crisis to crisis" until we finally hit some issue where one side resorts to civil unrest rather than lose, like Matthew Yglesias predicted, and the whole thing blows up.
- The lack of any serious effort on any side to de-escalate tensions between China and the United States essentially guarantees that, like almost every instance where a rising global power clashed with the incumbent, we'll be going to war; probably in more than 15 but less than 30 years.
So what do you do in this case? What do you do when your anxiety isn't caused by your own problems (I've got a cushy job and no childhood trauma) but by larger issues that you have no hope of solving?
That said, it's certainly a scary prospect.